Budapest Pictures
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This
picture is taken from the Gellert Hotel on the quiet Buda side
of the Danube river, looking across to busy Pest.
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Budapest
is a city in two distinct halves - Buda and Pest - separated
by the Danube river.
Buda's Castle District, packed with palaces, forts, museums,
churches and affluent housing is a World Heritage site, while
Pest handles the dirty daily life of commerce, entertainment
and conspicuous consumption - though that's not to say it's
unattractive. Pest is lively and cosmopolitan, offering all
the modern amenities required by the urban animal, from sushi
to late late clubbing and in a generally relaxed but historically
interesting setting.
Budapest
is, however, unrepresentative of Hungary in general. Modernisation
is slowly seeping into the countryside but there are still plenty
of medieval towns around, along with the occasional medieval
or communist mindset.
Not far from Budapest are a couple of ancient towns popular
with tourists in Hungary - Szentendre, Visegrad and Holloko.
We include a few images of the latter two destinations in this
Budapest Pictures Gallery.